2000s
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Years:
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
The decade as a whole
- In the context of Wikipedia, the standard name for the decade 2000 to 2009 is the "2000s". Use of the term elsewhere may result in confusion.\n*Even within Wikipedia, the wording "2000s decade" is much clearer than "2000s".\n*In keeping with naming decades (cf. 1990s "the Nineties", 1980s "the Eighties", etc.), the decade of the 2000s lacks an accepted name. A widely accepted term most likely won't come about until the decade has ended, but a few possibilities are:\n**"the 0-0s", usually pronounced as "the oh-ohs". This pronunciation sounds like "uh oh", an expression of dismay; this similarity is no doubt intentional.\n**"the 2Ks", a term that is rooted in the slang of the times. K is shorthand for the Latin prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K means 2000. In popular culture, the years of the decade are already being named according to this slang. For example, the year 2003 is referred to as 2K3. The "2K" term probably has its popular origins in the heavily-hyped Y2K bug that began the decade.\n**"the Aughts" (or "Oughts"), keeping with the practice of the nineteenth century.\n**"the Nillies", derived from the term "nil", meaning nothing or zero.\n**"the Noughties", referring to the nought, or zero, as the decade indicator; the word-play on "naughty" is intentional.\n**"the Twenty Hundreds" (2000's), keeping in the tradition of naming each decade with tenths for simplicity. For example, "Nineteen-Twenties" (1920's) rather than "One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenties". As such "Two Thousand and Four" becomes "Twenty Hundred and Four" or "Twenty-0-Four".\n*The United Nations General Assembly declared the (mostly overlapping) decade of 2001-2010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World".
Events and trends
\n* Major controversy over U.S. presidential election, 2000.\n* Globalization.\n* September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on New York's World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon killing over 3000 people.\n* 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to depose the Taliban regime in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.\n* December 2001 - 18 July 2003: The Convention on the Future of Europe proposed first European Union constitution.\n* International Criminal Court exists as of 1 July 2002, used for judging war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide\n* 2003 invasion of Iraq to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power.
People
\nWorld leaders
\n*Prime Minister John Howard (Australia)\n*President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil)\n*Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada)\n*Prime Minister Paul Martin (Canada)\n*President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China)\n*President Hu Jintao (People's Republic of China)\n*President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)\n*Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Convention on the Future of Europe)\n*President Jacques Chirac (France)\n*Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (Germany)\n*Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (India)\n*President Megawati Sukarnoputri (Indonesia)\n*President Mohammad Khatami (Iran)\n*President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)\n*Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Ireland)\n*President Mary McAleese (Ireland)\n*Prime Minister Ehud Barak (Israel)\n*Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (Israel)\n*Emperor Akihito (Japan)\n*Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro (Japan)\n*President Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexico)\n*President Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan)\n*President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority)\n*Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Palestinian Authority)\n*President Vladimir Putin (Russia)\n*Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic (Serbia)\n*President Thabo Mbeki (South Africa)\n*President Joseph Deiss (Switzerland)\n*President Chen Shui-bian (Republic of China on Taiwan)\n*Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom, et. al )\n*Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom)\n*President Bill Clinton (United States)\n*President George W. Bush (United States)\n*Pope John Paul II (Vatican City)
State leaders by year: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...
Entertainers
\n* Kurt Angle\n* Adam Sandler \n* Ben Affleck\n* Hilary Duff\n* Eminem\n* Bill Goldberg\n* Tom Hanks\n* Nicole Kidman \n* Samuel L. Jackson\n* Chris Jericho\n* Brock Lesnar\n* Alex D. Linz (Max Keeble's Big Move)\n* Kylie Minogue\n* Madonna\n* Mike Myers (Austin Powers)\n* Moby\n* The Rock\n* Radiohead\n* M. Night Shyamalan \n* Will Smith\n* Britney Spears\n* U2\n* Bruce Willis
Sports figures
\n* David Beckham (English soccer player)\n* Sachin Tendulkar (Indian cricket player)\n* Barry Bonds (U.S. baseball player)\n* Martin Brodeur (Canadian ice hockey player)\n* Kobe Bryant (U.S. basketball player)\n* Vince Carter (U.S. basketball player)\n* Dale Earnhardt Jr (U.S. racing driver)\n* Sergei Fedorov (Russian ice hockey player)\n* Jeff Gordon (U.S. racing driver)\n* Allen Iverson (U.S. basketball player)\n* LeBron James (U.S. basketball player)\n* Derek Jeter (U.S. baseball player)\n* Michael Jordan (U.S. basketball player)\n* Oliver Kahn (German soccer player)\n* Nikolai Khabibulin (Russian ice hockey player)\n* Anna Kournikova (Russian tennis player)\n* Ray Lewis (U.S. American football player)\n* Donovan McNabb (U.S. American football player)\n* Randy Moss (U.S. American football player)\n* Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lankan cricketerer)\n* Shaquille O'Neal (U.S. basketball player)\n* Andy Roddick (U.S. tennis player)\n* Alex Rodriguez (U.S. baseball player)\n* Ronaldo (Brazilian soccer player)\n* Sammy Sosa (Dominican baseball player)\n* Martin St. Louis (Canadian ice hockey player)\n* Ian Thorpe (Australian swimmer)\n* Michael Vick (U.S. American football player)\n* Venus and Serena Williams (U.S. tennis players)\n* Tiger Woods (U.S. golfer)\n* Zinedine Zidane (French soccer player)
Arts and entertainment
\nMusic
\n#-C
\n* 311 (From Chaos)\n* Above the Law (Forever Rich Thungs)\n* AC/DC (Stiff Upper Lip, Strap it On)\n* The Alkaline Trio (Good Mourning)\n* Anthrax (We've Come For You All)\n* Apollo Sunshine (Katonah)\n* Audioslave (Audioslave)\n* Bad Religion (The New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First)\n* Badly Drawn Boy (The Hour of Bewilderbeast)\n* The Beastie Boys (To the 5 Boroughs)\n* Blink-182 (The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, Blink-182)\n* Bowling For Soup (Drunk Enough to Dance)\n* Britney Spears (Oops!...I Did It Again)\n* Bumblebeez 81 (The Printz)\n* Chevelle (Wonder What's Next)\n* Coldplay (Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head)\n* Common (Like Water for Chocolate)\n* The Cure (The Cure)
D-L
\n* Death By Stereo (Day of the Death)\n* Dead Prez (Let's Get Free)\n* DMX (The Great Depression)\n* Hilary Duff (Metamorphosis)\n* Dynamite Hack (Superfast)\n* The Eagles of Death Metal (Peace, Love, Death Metal)\n* Elastica (The Menace)\n* Eminem (The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show)\n* Enrique Iglesias (Escape)\n* Evanescence (Fallen)\n* Finch (250mL)\n* Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand)\n* Green Day (Warning, International Superhits, Shenanigans, American Idiot)\n* Guns n' Roses (Chinese Democracy)\n* The Hives (Veni Vidi Vicious)\n* Home Grown (Kings of Pop)\n* Hoobastank (The Reason)\n* Incubis (Morning View), (A Crow Left of the Murder)\n* J. Lo (This Is Me... Then)\n* Ja Rule (Pain Is Love)\n* The Jerky Boys (Stop Staring at Me, The Jerky Tapes)\n* Kylie Minogue (Light Years, Fever, Body Language)\n* Lagwagon (Blaze)\n* Avril Lavigne (Let Go, Under My Skin)\n* Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory, Meteora)
M-P
\n* Mest (Wasting Time, Destination Unknown, Mest)\n* Metallica (St. Anger)\n* Mudvayne (L.D. 50, The End of All Things to Come)\n* nine inch nails (bleedthrough)\n* No Use for a Name (Hard Rock Bottom)\n* *NSYNC (Celebrity)\n* The Offspring (Americana, Conspiracy of One, Splinter)\n* Ozzy Osbourne (Down to Earth)\n* Pantera (Reinventing the Steel)\n* Poe (Haunted)\n* Primus (Antipop, Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People)\n* Puddle of Mudd (Come Clean, Life on Display)\nR-S
\n* Radiohead (Kid A)\n* Rammstein (Mutter)\n* Rancid (Indestructible)\n* Reasons To Remain ('Shaping The Cerebralist' (EP))\n* The Roots (Phrenology)\n* Rush (Vapor Trails, Rush in Rio, Feedback)\n* Scorpions (Unbreakable)\n* Shakira (Laundry Service)\n* The Smashing Pumpkins (Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Machina: The Machines of God, Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music)\n* Smile Empty Soul (Smile Empty Soul)\n* The Smithereens (God Save the Smithereens)\n* Social Distortion (Social Distortion)\n* Story of the Year (Page Avenue)\n* The Strokes (Is This It)\n* Sum 41 (All Killer No Filler)\n* Switchfoot (Beautiful Let Down)\n* System of a Down (Toxicity, Steal This Album)
T-Z
\n* Tool (Lateralus)\n* U2 (All That You Can't Leave Behind)\n* The Vines (Highly Evolved, Winning Days)\n* Weezer (The Green Album, Maladroit)\n* The White Stripes (Elephant)\n* Yellowcard (Ocean Avenue)
see also 2000s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 2000s
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